[K114.30] 37-38 Ortackus, in Bo's Point

I spent a long while in the library with Bupazanort. He told me about the settlement of the town, how it started as a place where many people came to study the Orem ruins. The Bo of Bo's Point was the leader of the ship captains. He worked with the Highelds investigating the ruins (they took lots of stuff away as part of their deal). They also changed how the towers in the harbor worked; they were the ones to set the towers in such a way that everyone going by felt odd, unless they were of particular royal blood (in which case it's rather more than just feeling odd). Back in those days, there were wild Orem about, who were angry and attacked people. They had long shinal, and usually went without clothes. They didn't build things as other Orem do, just squatted in the ruins. Pirates killed these Orem (how could they have become this way? I don't know.), beccautse they weren't using the cover, and got in the way of other people settling here. Highelds took some of the Orem bodies, but I didn't hear more about that.

Bo was the king of the pirates, but over the last eighty years, things shifted from piratry towards trade, and from kingship towards council rulership. All the important houses in town trace back to the important captains of Bo's time. (I wonder which Bo was in.)

Bupazanort was curious about the incident last night; the stories were already growing as they wafted through town. Some were saying that there was a holy warrior involved; I told him that wasn't true, since Cor is not of the Healer nor the Warrior. I described what did happen, including Thymelixsen's magic stars and the conversation with the glacier spirit that took on human-like form afterward. He was intrigued by this, because it's unusual for spirits to manifest like that, and even more so for them to use words, even unspoken words. When spirits take people over, they can gain almost mortal understanding of the world, unlike how most spirits see the universe, from an immortal perspective. To use words, though, he mentioned two things: (1) something called an is-held or isheld, which I don't yet understand, or (2) possession of a living spirit enough to control speech. I pointed out that this was not a living person, the icy man-form the spirit used; I'm not sure how much difference it makes. He did say that a spirit may manifest to be able to know things that it cannot know in its usual form.

I mentioned the poison under the town, sucking the life out of it, and he pointed out that the curse the town was under was waning. I told him about the change in the shrine and the life-sucking things that the blessed of that shrine has, and he didn't seem overly concerned. I described what had happened to me at the shrine, how the sense of the Healer was only momentary, then changed into a beast-thing instead, that had attacked me, leaving the voices in my head. His reply got me to try sensing disease on myself (why hadn't I thought of that sooner?), and I seem to have disease that is blended cold, death, and time, all together, not just one thing. None of these are disease, though, so I'm not sure whether my blessing could dislodge it, if it is even safe for me to attempt using a blessing when I'm infected like this.